Disney+ Scores UEFA Women’s Champions League Rights in Five-Year European Deal – Global Bulletin

SOCCER STREAMING

Disney+ has landed exclusive live streaming rights to the UEFA Women’s Champions League soccer tournament across Europe in a five-year pact covering the 2025/26 through 2029/30 seasons.

The deal makes Disney+ the sole destination for all 75 matches in the competition, with coverage launching in October alongside the tournament’s new 18-team League phase format. All matches will stream live at no additional cost to subscribers through the 2026 final at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo.

ESPN will handle production duties for Disney+, providing multi-language commentary and pre- and post-game programming. The sports network brings four-and-a-half decades of broadcasting experience to the project, having recently added UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League coverage to Disney+ in Denmark and Sweden.

The announcement builds on Disney’s existing partnership with UEFA through the Playmakers program, which has introduced over 132,000 girls aged 5-8 to soccer across 6,300 centers in 46 countries since 2020. The initiative, recently extended through 2027, employs nearly 8,000 coaches.

“The UEFA Women’s Champions League is the very best in football [soccer] performance, dedication, and passion,” said Karl Holmes, general manager of Disney+ EMEA. “Bringing this incredible tournament to Disney+ customers and audiences speaks to our commitment to delivering a huge range of bold and dynamic entertainment.”

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Meanwhile, Disney+ has commenced production on “Delusion” (working title), a live-action adaptation of the popular Naver webtoon, set for exclusive release on Disney+ globally and Hulu in the U.S.

The series follows Song Jeonghwa, a vampire mourning a love lost decades earlier who has resigned herself to an empty existence. Her world shifts when Iho, a painter with his own mysterious past, arrives and rekindles something within her.

Suzy (“Start-Up”) stars as the heartbroken vampire Song Jeonghwa, with Kim Seonho (“The Tyrant”) as the enigmatic painter Iho. Han Jaerim (“The Face Reader”) directs.

The project joins Disney+’s expanding Korean content slate, which includes “Low Life” starring Ryu Seungryong; “Tempest” featuring Jun Gianna and Gang Dongwon; and “Made In Korea” with Hyun Bin and Jung Woosung.

DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR

The U.K.’s Sky News has tapped Siobhan Sinnerton as creative director of Full Story Films, the broadcaster’s new long-form documentary production unit. Sinnerton joins from HiddenLight Productions, where she developed and executive produced critically acclaimed documentaries including the Emmy-winning “In Her Hands” for Netflix.

The appointment sees Sinnerton reporting to David Rhodes, Sky News Group executive chair, as she shapes the editorial and creative strategy for the premium unit that operates within Sky’s news group. Full Story Films will complement Sky Documentaries’ broader commissioning strategy with news-adjacent films for streaming and television.

Previously commissioning editor for news and current affairs at Channel 4, Sinnerton commissioned the BAFTA-winning “Myanmar’s Killing Fields” and Oscar-nominated “For Sama,” while overseeing premium human-interest and investigative films.